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Svenska/English: Brev till svenska regeringen - 2006-4-23 och Letter-Writing Call: Sveriges justitiekansler ursäktar hattal - borde avgå! -------------------------- Brev till svenska regeringen: Kära Thomas Bodström , Justitieminister / Göran Persson, Statsminister Jag är stolt att det i vårt land är ett brott att uttrycka nedlåtande åsikter om etniska, nationella, religiösa och sexuella minoriteter, eller att uppvigla hat och våld emot dem. Tyvärr har dock dessa åsikter och sådan uppvigling blivit alltför vanligt förekommande i Sverige, ibland till och med i media, mot judiska minoriteter i synnerhet, dock ofta förklätt som Israel-kritik. Med denna bakgrund vägrar justitiekansler Göran Lambertz att fälla de brott som det insitutionaliserade muslimska hatet, med explicita uppmaningar att ”döda judar”, begår. Dessa uttalanden är en fara för inte bara israeliska medborgare utan även svenska judar, och en stor skam för Sverige. Jag föreslår å det starkaste att herr Lambertz blir avsatt från sin post som justitiekansler. Hans rationaliserande av muslimska rop i Sverige på att ”döda judar” tjänar som en ursäkt för den mördande rasism som finns i Sverige och på andra ställen och passar bättre för nynazister än för justitiekanslern i Sverige. Respektfullt, T. C. (…)
Stockholm Sveriges justitiekansler ursäktar hattal - borde avgå! Nedan är en artikel skriven av några framstående personer inom de judiska organisationerna i Sverige. I Sverige är det ett brott att uttrycka sig nedsättande om etniska, nationella, religiösa och sexuella minoriteter för att uppvigla hat och våld emot dem. Tyvärr har emellertid nedsättande och uppviglande hat emot den judiska minoriteten i Sverige blivit vardagligt. Flera väldokumenterade fall av sådant provokationer och uttryckliga uppmaningar att ”döda judarna” fördes fram till justitiekansler Göran Lambertz för undersökning. Men, chockerande nog, var inte Lambertz redo att fördöma dessa fall utan menade att de var legitima politiska uttryck från muslimer på grund av deras konflikt med Israel. Lambertz plikt borde varit att upprätthålla Sveriges lagar mot rashets. Istället menar han att sådan uppvigling och hat är politiskt rättfärdigat, till och med när det handlar om direkta uppmaningar att döda judar. Genom detta beslut har Lambertz missbrukat sin ställning som justitiekansler. Hans agerande bryter antagligen även mot svensk lag. Även om man inte har de nödvändiga resurser för att dra honom inför domstol, kan man rätteligen kräva Lambertz omedelbara avgång från sin post som justitiekansler. All borde, inte minst alla våra vänner i Sverige, skriva protestbrev till den svenska regeringen och media, på svenska, engelska och andra språk. Vi, Take-A-Pen, kräver inte bara någon halvljummen rättelse utan även att Lambertz avgår från sin post. Hans acceptans av uppmaningar att ”döda judar” är inte en fråga om formulering. Det är inte hans ord men hans åsikter som tjänar som ursäkt för mördande rasism. Detta är de viktigaste personerna inom svenska regeringen att kontakta: - Göran Persson, Statsminister http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/2070 - Thomas Bodström, Justitieminister http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/2078 - Jan Eliasson, nyutnämnd utrikesminister Webformulär för alla representanter för Sveriges regering: http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/2052 Kontaktdetaljer för svensk press hittas på http://www.take-a-pen.org/Svenska/Tidningarna.htm Skicka brev till ambassadörer, press & media samt politiker! (E.M.)
Artikeln: Lambertz omtolkning ökar hotet mot judar
International Letter-Writing Call (in English): Hate-Speech Justifying 'Chancellor of Justice' of Sweden - Must Go! Below is an article written by some leaders of the Swedish Jewry, published in the European Jewish press. In Sweden it is a crime to express derogatory statements about ethnic, racial, national, religious and sexual minorities or to incite hatred and violence against them. Sadly, however, derogatory statements and even incitement to hatred and violence against the Jewish minority became commonplace in Sweden. Several well-documented cases of such incitement for hatred and explicit calls for "killing the Jews" were brought before the Swedish Chancellor of Justice, Göran Lambertz, for investigation. But, astoundingly, the Chancellor of Justice has not been ready to denounce these cases of incitement and calls for killing – considering them as if legitimate political expressions of Moslems regarding their conflict with Israel. Lambertz's duty should have been enforcing Sweden's laws against racial hatred. Instead of it he found political justification for such incitement and hatred, even a direct call for Jihad and "killing the Jews". By that Lambertz has horribly abused the Chancellor of Justice office. His act probably also constitutes a breach of the Swedish law. While one can not have the necessary resources to pursue a legal procedure against Lambertz, we can rightly demand his immediate resignation or removal from office. With such a Chancellor of Justice – who needs Neo-Nazis in Sweden?
We all should write letters of protest to the Swedish Government and
press; in Swedish, in English and in other languages, (as Candy Shinhaar
of ICAN suggests).
These are the major Swedish government addresses to contact: - Göran Persson, Swedish Prime Minister, Web form http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/2070 - Thomas Bodström, Minister for Justice, Web form http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/2078
Fax
+46 8 20 27 34 - Jan Eliasson has been appointed new Minister for Foreign Affairs. He will take up his post on 24 April
Web forms for all Swedish Government representatives http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/2052
Send your letters to the Swedish ambassador in your country. To find the contact address for your country go to http://www.embassyworld.com/
Embassy of Sweden in Israel swembtlv@trendline.co.il Fax: +972-(0)3-695 81 You may send your letters to the Swedish ambassador in your country. To find the contact address for your country go to http://www.embassyworld.com/ Embassy of Sweden in Israel swembtlv@trendline.co.il Fax: +972-(0)3-695 81 --------------------------------------------------------------
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here is the article: It is a crime in Sweden to express derogatory statements about ethnic, racial, national, religious and sexual minorities or to incite hatred and violence against them. Simultaneously the limits of what one can express in Sweden against Jews are being expanded gradually. All Jewish institutions in Sweden are being continuously guarded because of threats directed to Jewish individuals as well as to Jewish institutions, and the Jewish communities spend 25% of their budget on security. The hate website Radio Islam continues to spew forth its coarse Anti-Semitism, spread lists of Jews (real or imagined) and conspiracy theories on its site without the security police or the prosecuting authorities doing anything about it. When the radical right-wing party the Sweden Democrats on the other hand, had one of the Muhammed cartoons on its web-site, it was closed down after a quick and direct intervention by an official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the beginning of this year, the Chancellor of Justice*, Goran Lambertz, discontinued his preliminary investigation against the great mosque in Stockholm. Cassette tapes had been sold in the bookshop of the mosque with a violently Anti-Semitic contents. After a couple of broadcasts on the 26 and 27th November last year, the Stockholm mosque was reported to the police. In his decision to discontinue the preliminary investigation Lambertz wrote that “the lecture at hand contains statements that are strongly degrading to Jews, among other things, they are throughout called brothers of apes and pigs.” Furthermore a curse is expressed over the Jews and “Jihad is called for, to kill the Jews, whereby suicide bombers - celebrated as martyrs - are the most effective weapon”. The Chancellor raises the question whether the statements “should be judged differently, and be considered allowed, because they are used by one side in a continuing profound conflict, where battle cries and invectives are part of everyday occurrences in the rhetoric that surround the conflict.” Lambertz thought that the “recently mentioned statements in spite of their contents are not to be considered “incitement against an ethnic group according to Swedish law”. His conclusions were that the preliminary investigation should be discontinued because this case of incitement against Jews could be said to originate from the Middle East conflict. That is, in spite of the calls for ”killing the Jews”, these statements are not a crime in the legal sense in Sweden, because of the current conflict in the Middle East, according to the Chancellor of Justice. The logical conclusion is clear. If one mentions Palestine in hate speeches and calls for mass murder against Jews, one risks nothing in Sweden. What is then the situation for the Jews of Sweden? The Jewish communities spend 25% of its budget on security measures. No Jewish events, social, religious and cultural, can take place without extensive security measures. One wonders what the appointment of the Jews of Sweden to be a national minority according to the European Council Convention, together with Samis, Romas, Swedish Finns and Tornedal Finns? Official Sweden wants to cut down on the little aid there is, to Jewish institutions for security; schools among others, and refuse absolutely to take over any responsibility for the security measures that even security police reports deem necessary. Jewish cemeteries in Stockholm and Malmoe have been vandalized recently. The Chief of police in Stockholm wants to remove the cement impediments in front of the great Synagogue of Stockholm. Jews are being harassed and persecuted in certain suburbs of Stockholm only because of their Jewishness and many have been forced to move to get away from the harassment. In May last year the Minister for Justice, Thomas Bodstrom, stated in Parliament that the police and the prosecuting authorities should give top priority to hate crimes as e.g. incitement against Jews. The reinterpretation of the law by the Chancellor of Justice gives the absolute opposite message. If this interpretation will turn into practice the threshold for the expression of hatred and incitement against Jews will be nearly eradicated. The most frightening thing about this decision is the resounding silence that it has generated. Lisa Abramowicz Chairperson of the Information committee of the Jewish Community in Stockholm, Anders Carlberg, President of the Jewish Community in Gothenburg Lena Posner-Korosi President of the Central Jewish Council and of the Jewish Community in Stockholm Jesper Svartvik, Theology Professor, President of the Swedish Committee against Anti-Semitism _______________________ *The Chancellor of Justice is the Government's counselor in legal matters. It is not a political post. One of his tasks is to ensure that the limits of the freedom of the press and other media are not transgressed and to act as the only public prosecutor in cases regarding offences against the freedom of the press and other media. |
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